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What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? It seems like they'd have to be FOSS but most of the "FOSS" solutions I've seen still use a remote

What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? It seems like they'd have to be FOSS but most of the "FOSS" solutions I've seen still use a remote server for the actual processing.

walterbell 11y ago
It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine. Dragon Naturally Speaking (from Nuance) in a Windows VM could perform the speech recognition and relay commands to a Linux VM. See also the http://www.voxforge.org http://www.voxforge.org effort to aggregate OSS acoustic models.
- CaptSpify 11y ago
  > It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine. It depends on who you ask, some people may only be willing to run FOSS stuff |;) But yeah, I've looked for a "offline: FOSS or not" solution, and haven't found much. EDIT: I can't reply to you because thread is too deep I'm assuming, but: yeah, it looks like it does. Unfortunately I probably won't try this because it requires windows, and I'm not really wanting to set up a VM/Wine to accomplish this. But you are correct.
  - walterbell 11y ago
    Dragon works offline, http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/22/nuance-dragon-dictate-4-is-nearly-word-perfect-review/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/22/nuance-dragon-dictate-4-is...
CaptSpify 11y ago
> What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? Unfortunately not a lot. That's why I said it was "sort of" and answer. I've tried http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php and https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx in the past, with very limited results. Though it's been a while and they may have gotten better.

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What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? It seems like they'd have to be FOSS but most of the "FOSS" solutions I've seen still use a remote

by lukeschlather 11y ago

What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? It seems like they'd have to be FOSS but most of the "FOSS" solutions I've seen still use a remote server for the actual processing.

walterbell 11y ago
It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine. Dragon Naturally Speaking (from Nuance) in a Windows VM could perform the speech recognition and relay commands to a Linux VM. See also the http://www.voxforge.org http://www.voxforge.org effort to aggregate OSS acoustic models.
- CaptSpify 11y ago
  > It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine. It depends on who you ask, some people may only be willing to run FOSS stuff |;) But yeah, I've looked for a "offline: FOSS or not" solution, and haven't found much. EDIT: I can't reply to you because thread is too deep I'm assuming, but: yeah, it looks like it does. Unfortunately I probably won't try this because it requires windows, and I'm not really wanting to set up a VM/Wine to accomplish this. But you are correct.
  - walterbell 11y ago
    Dragon works offline, http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/22/nuance-dragon-dictate-4-is-nearly-word-perfect-review/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/22/nuance-dragon-dictate-4-is...
CaptSpify 11y ago
> What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text? Unfortunately not a lot. That's why I said it was "sort of" and answer. I've tried http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php and https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx in the past, with very limited results. Though it's been a while and they may have gotten better.